Quoting Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net>:
On 17/05/2019 19.15, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
Quoting Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net>:
On 17/05/2019 00.57, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
Anyone know of a way to force Thunderbird to use ASCII only for outgoing e-mails? I'm trying to get rid of the hard-space (0xA0) for the first of two spaces after a period. Some e-mail and maybe mail servers don't handle it well. It is replaced by two question marks on the other end.
I've used the config editor to set mailnews.send_default_charset to ASCII (ends up 8bit in e-mail header) and 7bit. Neither works.
No, using ASCII is not related to having hard space or not (flowed text). I believe it is a standard, the servers must comply with it. Change servers.
Hard space character (0xA0) is not ASCII.
ASCII like seven bits? Because strictly speaking, ascii ends at 0x3F, but any 8 bit charset in use this side of the century ends at 0xFF.
Man iso_8859-1 shows:
Oct Dec Hex Char Description ─────────────────────────────────────── 240 160 A0 NO-BREAK SPACE
So that's a perfectly legal character in 8 bit text.
Unfortunately, not all e-mail clients are up on 8bit charsets. The hard space is showing up on non-technical correspondents on both MacOS and Windows. It is doubtful that they have changed from the defaults. I'm running dual systems in many respects HTML (Thunderbird) and plain text e-mails (Mutt and technical mailing lists). Single (WordPress) and double spaces (TeX and most word processing programs, e.g. DOC, DOCX, ODT file formats) after periods between sentences. Also Gmail (Thunderbird and incoming e-mail to this address, jeff.taylor@ieee.org) and non-Gmail (Mutt, Postfix, and Procmail for some outgoing e-mail for this address and several others). It would be nice to be able to get rid of the dual systems, but I'd have to push several important somethings off the table. One benefit of the dual system is some reduncancy/resilience. Right now, outgoing e-mail thru G-mail is failing and has been sporadic for several days. I can work around with the old school route for most, but not all stuff. I could go off to a 3 year silent retreat, come back mindful enough, to always type the proper convention, but it's unlikely to happen that way ;) Thanks all for the help, Jeffrey -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org